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Welcome to the Application Performance Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from APM experts. This Blog provides insights into the Application Performance Management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

After a while we released new version of Domino agent 6.21 FP02 which is part of ITCAM for Applications 7.2.1.2. You can read more about this release on below url: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/0587adbc-8477-431f-8c68-9226adea11ed/entry/ITCAM_for_Applications_7_2_1_2_released_Extra_Extra_Read_All_About_It?lang=en Download Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for Lotus® Domino® 6.2.1 Fix Pack 2 from Passport Advantage site Part Number: CRP6NML After downloading image extract it to your temporary... [More]

The Tivoli Log File Agent (LFA) is one of the most widely used agents. The LFA is an agent that provides a configurable log file monitoring capability that uses regular expressions. For compatibility, the agent can consume the configuration information and format strings previously used by the Tivoli Event Console Log File Adapter. These strings allow the agent to filter the log data according to patterns in the format file, and submit only the interesting data to an event consumer. More information about these can be found in the LFA user... [More]

View the latest IBM Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided... dwAnswers - Week of Sep 19 th Why is APM 8.1.3 agent randomly going offline and stops showing data? We have Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Applications which shows online in APM dashboard and displays data, but after some time it shows offline and stops showing data, and then again comes back online without us doing anything to stop or start the agent. This is making the agent unreliable. What is causing this problem? Answ er:... [More]

After a while we released new version of Domino agent 6.21 FP02 which is part of ITCAM for Applications 7.2.1.2. You can read more about this release on below url: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/0587adbc-8477-431f-8c68-9226adea11ed/entry/ITCAM_for_Applications_7_2_1_2_released_Extra_Extra_Read_All_About_It?lang=en Download Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for Lotus® Domino® 6.2.1 Fix Pack 2 from Passport Advantage site Part Number: CRP6NML After downloading image extract it to your... [More]

It is highly recommended to have the interim fix 7.1.1.0-TIV-ITCAM_J2EE-IF0003 installed. It is available starting from Apr 22nd 2016 and can be downloaded from here: https://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm/Tivoli/Tivoli+Composite+Application+Manager+for+J2EE&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=7.1.1.0-TIV-ITCAM_J2EE-IF0003&includeSupersedes=0 To install 7.1.1.0-TIV-ITCAM_J2EE-IF0003 you must have ITCAM for J2EE 7.1.1 already installed on your server, at any earlier 7.1.1.x... [More]

The IBM Linux KVM agent monitors your Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM) environment or application. IBM Performance Management V8.1.3.1 introduces an enhanced Linux KVM agent, which is now equipped with comprehensive dashboards. With these new dashboards, the Linux system administrators can monitor the key performance metrics of the Linux KVM applications, and ensure that the KVM applications are always up and running without any performance bottlenecks. Linux KVM administrators, who monitor the KVM applications in an enterprise... [More]

View the latest IBM Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided... dwAnswers - Week of Sep 12 th Why is IIB monitoring agent from APM 8.1.3 not staying up on AIX? We have APM 8.1.3 monitoring agent for IIB Message broker configured on multiple AIX hosts. On one of these servers, the IIB agent is shutting down shortly after being started. In the agent log, host_qi_brkr_#.log, we see following messages. How can this problem be resolved? Answer: https://ibm.biz/BdrkZM... [More]

It is happening often that a customer has more versions brokers to be monitored on the same server (or AIX LPAR for example). Using the message broker agent to monitor all these brokers together is possible but configuration may not be so straightforward. I have created this blog entry with the instructions on how to set up message broker agent to achieve this goal. Hope this helps! INSTRUCTIONS The problem can be solved by using 2 instances with their own defaultWMBinstalldir and agentid (this config requires different broker names) in the... [More]

So what are our new and exciting styles to enhance your IBM ® Performance Management wardrobe for the new season. Let me introduce the new agents and enhancements, why these and why bother trying these new styles? The new documentation collection Monitoring Agent for Amazon EC2 - You can use the Amazon EC2 agent to monitor the health, availability, and performance of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance resources. This agent is in the Infrastructure Extension Pack and is available for many offerings. Monitoring... [More]

In this blog I will explain how to configure the connection string for the Oracle Database Extended Agent version 6.3.1. There are three kinds of connection string for the agent configuration. 1) easy connect path as "//<host>:<port>/<service>", for example: //tivp56.cn.ibm.com:1521/oradb Note: this requires the easy connection mode(ezconnect) is enabled in the listener configure file sqlnet.ora. NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH=(ezconnect, tnsnames) 2) full description path as... [More]

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities has been identified in Websphere Application Server shipped with Jazz for Service Management (CVE-2016-3092, CVE-2016-0377, CVE-2016-0385, CVE-2016-5986) Summary WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Full profile is shipped as a component of Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) and WAS is affected by multiple security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-3092 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the Apache Commons FileUpload... [More]